Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

cornel panceac cpanceac at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 12:44:48 UTC 2010


2010/9/2 drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:27 PM, cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> > that's one of the many reasons testers' work should not just be
> discarded.
>
> Where did I say that?
>
> > they have a lot of hardware and a lot of time the developers can not
> > possibly have. also they are more significant as average users since they
> > are not special persons working for special companies. i assumed here
> that
> > the average user is important, at least as important as a(ny) company.
>
> Well yeah if a tester actually takes the time and run a bisect and
> tells the developer "this bug is caused by commit foo" it would indeed
> be very helpful.
>
> I was just replying to the statement "it is a regression and thus
> easier to fix", which isn't that simply in real world.
>

it's true. and it was proved impossible to me, but i'm not a developer :)
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